150+ gallon tank build

New additions! Went to the LFS yesterday and saw a few characters that I just had to come home with.






And some Tank shots. Haven't got the new lights yet to fill out the blue look.

 

good luck with that clown tang... I tried everything to keep mine from getting ich but still got it and eventually died

 

Yeah, that's what I've heard, but he came from a 75g tank and he'd been in there for 2 years already with no ich troubles. We'll see how it goes. He's the most active fish in the tank though and eats like a pig.

 

Yea they eat a ton of algae... When I had mine he cleared all the algae off my rocks in about a week...they are pretty aggressive too

 

Well a couple updates. My clown tang is doing just amazing. No signs of aggression towards any of the other fish and no signs of ich yet (crossing fingers). My sand sifting goby jumped So I've now got a pretty much lock-tight tank. I put a fine mesh over the top so that I don't reduce too much lighting, but the holes are quite small.

Last week I added a christmas wrasse (Ornate wrasse - Halichoeres ornatissimus)
Most websites warn about keeping this fellow in a reef system so I removed all of my sexy shrimp (Now in my g/fs tank - Consider this payback for the damsel that is now in my tank... wait that doesn't work.. sexy shrimp are cool). My cleaner shrimp and fire shrimp are large enough to take care of themselves IMO. This is a juvenile fish, so it doesn't have the typical red and green stripes yet, but you can see the change occuring. He/She is about 3-4 inches at this time.
Once introduces it went straight for the sand bed. Finally came out 5 days later to eat. Now it's fat. Great!

I also added a very small dendro frag from the LFS. I've been feeding mysis and brine and it eats every day so far until I get a few more heads, then I'll probably reduce feeding. At any rate... where is that camera?

EDIT: The pecking order still remains intact with the maroon clown on top - they had a little scuffle, but it's settled now and Rocky came out supreme.

EDIT EDIT: I've also added 4 x 40w NO Actinics because I switched to 10000K MH Bulbs.

 

PICS PICS PICS PICS :trampolin

 

Hey guys, finally got a camera to throw up some pics of the new stuff. I got new zoanthids this week, as well as an open brain, a torch coral and I believe I already mentioned my dendros.

 

More Pics.





I love that last pic, you can really see the christmas wrasse changing.

 

More pics.



Can't really get a FTS yet because I have stuff too close.